About the Authors

Jasmine R. Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jasmine.lee1@uqconnect.edu.au

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, CSIRO, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Aleks Terauds

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia

Josie Carwardine

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CSIRO, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia

Justine D. Shaw

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia

Richard A. Fuller

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Hugh P. Possingham

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Steven L. Chown

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Peter Convey

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations British Antarctic Survey, NERC, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Neil Gilbert

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Constantia Consulting, Christchurch, New Zealand

Kevin A. Hughes

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, NERC, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ewan McIvor

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia

Sharon A. Robinson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences and Global Challenges Program, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Yan Ropert-Coudert

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, La Rochelle Université − CNRS, UMR 7372, Villiers en Bois, France

Dana M. Bergstrom

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences and Global Challenges Program, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Elisabeth M. Biersma

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations British Antarctic Survey, NERC, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Claire Christian

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, Washington DC, United States of America

Don A. Cowan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Yves Frenot

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Rennes 1, CNRS, EcoBio (Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution)—UMR 6553, Rennes, France

Stéphanie Jenouvrier

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lisa Kelley

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States of America

Michael J. Lee

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Reel Time Gaming, Taringa, Queensland, Australia

Heather J. Lynch

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Birgit Njåstad

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway

Antonio Quesada

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Ricardo M. Roura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, Washington DC, United States of America

E. Ashley Shaw

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Damon Stanwell-Smith

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), South Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States of America, Viking Expeditions, Basel, Switzerland

Megumu Tsujimoto

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa Japan, National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

Diana H. Wall

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Annick Wilmotte

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation InBios Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Iadine Chadès

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CSIRO, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.